People who don't give a fuck.

Conversation I just had with my asshole roommate about a program I advocate for and help run on my university campus, which brings a refugee to Canada, gives them permenant recidency , and provides finacially so they can study free of charge for the first year of their studies. Basically takes them out of the dead end, violent situation they are in and gives them a new start. Changes their LIVES.

Roommate: "Yeah I basically think the program is retarded.."
Me: *blank face* "..."
Roommate: " no offense.."
Me: "why would you think that?!"
Roommate: " Well jeeze no one helps me with my education" <.

Me: (in less detail and with as much calm as I could muster)
"Do you realize that these people are refugees, in the poorest parts of the world, who have just escaped with their lives from asylum counties where they were at risk of DEATH or TORTURE, where they probably witnessed countless autrocities, and then relocated to hell hole camps in which there are no oppurtunties, and scarce food, and water ? A place where they swelter in 40 C degree heat every day in food lines where they patiently wait for food to be handed out, in lines where many of them collapse from disease, starvation, or heat stroke?!?!?! These people are dying every day and if they don't die they are still living in this hopeless situation for YEARS, maybe their whole lives and you think it's futile and "retarded" that people in Canada are tryinig to help them out!?!?"
Roommate: "Well whatever, you're only saving one person"
Me: "One person is better then none! We work our asses off every year to bring that ONE person to safety, so they can study in a free, secure place to share our oppurtunities. If we could bring more we would. That's not something you can belittle"
Roommate: "Yeah well I don't really know what to think about it all. I still think it sounds dumb"
*Goes in the shower*

Me: ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG, ready to flip off the handle or die of shock that one person can be so stupid, and self centered.

This is a girl who is a shop-a-holic, wastes food like no bodies business, hates foriegners with accents, and can't be bothered to hold a job for more then a week this school year.

...oh I am so.. angry, I'm ashamed to live with a girl like her.
*sigh*